[00:01.19]Don't want the world to see me
[00:08.50]Don't think that they'd understand
[00:15.56]Everything's meant to be broken
[00:22.56]Want you to know who I am
[00:27.94]
[00:34.22]I see myself in the mirror, but I don't see nothing
[00:36.32]
[00:40.61]If you understand what I'm seeing please tell me something
[00:45.55]When you black, the media make you wonder why
[00:54.60]I need to learn...
[00:55.66]My lifetime came from struggle
[01:00.03]All I've seen is what I follow
[01:01.85]My skin color, automatic transaction
[01:05.04]I'm already classified, no second chance
[01:08.85]Taught to feel nappy hands, little grade
[01:11.72]Why can't I sag when it's just a style
[01:15.04]Grown beard, black hoodie, and I'm all good
[01:18.48]People judge before they even know me
[01:20.91]Stare at me, don't know I'm lonely
[01:23.60]Outside's front these stares from police
[01:26.47]And I get the bad rap because another man that just looks like me
[01:31.80]Think life's a movie like Spike Lee
[01:34.49]Too cool like Ice T
[01:36.30]Yeah, I move with Life's Peace, and he move with the gun piece
[01:39.68]So there's no peace
[01:41.55]I gotta go to the hood, all I see is
[01:44.18]Divided, the freshest schizophrenics
[01:47.37]Men pimping women, people losing vision
[01:49.93]Given choices before she started living
[01:52.75]I hate myself
[01:53.55]
[01:54.18]Don't want the world to see me
[02:01.25]Don't think that they'd understand
[02:08.24]Everything's meant to be broken
[02:12.49]Want you to know who I am
[02:19.74]
[02:22.99]I see myself in the mirror, but I don't see nothing
[02:24.95]If you understand what I'm seeing please tell me something
[02:28.45]When you black, the media make you wonder why
[02:29.57]I just need my history, because I hate myself
[02:30.90]It makes me sad to see pimping like I'm at a battle with my surroundings
[02:32.15]Everybody do it, but not really
[02:33.03]And I couldn't imagine my momma
[02:33.40]Universal knowledge is karma
[02:34.15]I see young girls hanging off the corner
[02:37.15]And they searching for love in the wrong space
[02:40.21]Gave her mind to a pimp, now he's changing faces
[02:43.78]Sometimes I just wish I could trade places
[02:47.56]I hate myself for being taught the roots of the hood
[02:51.25]Which don't matter, no respect and no love
[02:54.63]That got jailed for the real thugs
[02:57.06]And I'm sorry to all the innocent in prison
[03:00.00]You get a second chance when you free or in heaven
[03:03.75]I promise if you really love and you watch your steps
[03:07.88]Respect everybody, man you will get blessed
[03:11.45]Get your point across without violence
[03:14.22]The black dying by the gun, I'm tired of crying
[03:16.78]I hate myself
[03:18.22]
[03:18.85]Don't want the world to see me
[03:27.62]Don't think that they'd understand
[03:33.37]Everything's meant to be broken
[03:38.35]Want you to know who I am
[03:43.07]
[03:47.14]I'm ready to give up my old thoughts
[03:50.20]I'ma move past what I saw
[03:52.95]I'ma do what I want and be happy
[03:55.82]I'm not gon' rob or kill to survive
[03:59.64]Everything I've seen was a lie
[04:02.14]I'm not ready to die, I love myself
[04:05.64]I said...
[04:08.01]Everything that I've seen was a lie
[04:10.52]I'm not ready to die, I love myself
[04:13.77]Break that mental
[04:17.08]You know we are free now man
[04:20.89]Break that, uh, mental blockage
[04:23.77]Don't think too hard, free your mind
[04:29.14]That's real life man
[04:30.14]I just... you know speak for real
[04:32.87]Shit, that really feel real shit, man you know
[04:36.27]We all human, we all got questions
[04:39.08]You know, I'm designed this way and I got questions
[04:41.79]It's all love over here, you feel me?
[04:44.66]
[04:46.80]Like I said man, just livin'
[04:53.19]Yeah, but then I hear me tho'
[04:56.44]I said I'm ready to give up my old thoughts
[05:00.38]I'ma move past what I saw
[05:02.81]I'ma do what I want to be happy
[05:05.19]I'm not gon' rob or kill to survive
[05:08.07]Everything I've seen was a lie
[05:09.95]I'm not ready to die, I love myself
[05:17.75]But I don't see nothin'
[05:22.94]If you hear what I'm sayin' please tell me somethin'
[05:30.00]When you-, the media make you wonder why
[05:36.94]I need to learn my history, because I hate myself